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The sergeant went on, filling hiured out on his own such as where the break room was and the list of added duties he’d be required to do on top of the usual ones, now that he’d been proeant He also told Brandon his box with all his office belongings would be delivered to him later Brandon listened intently and respectfully, annoyed that his thoughts had gone back to the princess from the airport He’d been certain that she was Hispanic Brady? Then he rerand--she was ina

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Week two of this boring ass assignina otten in New York already This would never live up to the excites like the Ronnet Museum she’d worked on early last year She’d taken this transfer only because of its location Now she wondered if she’don the west coast and living on the beach would be an exciting change, the change she needed But the job was turning out to be so boring Of course, she’d been notorious her entire life for having the worst luck ever Her family and friends had labeled her the feht it was funny It never failed If so at the uess which one of the real bad, or ,the last to be served at a restaurant when in a group or the restaurant no longer serving the specific dessert she’d craved all the way there On the airplane, she’d been stuck next to the chattiest person on the planet when all she’d wanted to do was sleep

Taking a deep breath, Regina folded her arms in front of her as she went and stood by theof her ht There were a ton of soldiers here, whichsomeone But as usual, as her rotten luck would have it, she was stuck working on the side of the base where it wastroops who seeet them in trouble like flirt or even talk to a civilian--that and a bunch of hardnosed drill instructors and their even harder superiors So far, the only one who had caught her eye seeht staring at her at the airport in Washington DC He’d blown her sain when she’d run into hiht to San Diego and he’d been wearing fatigues, she figured since she’d be working on the base there was a sined it would be this soon and certainly not that they’d be working in the sained the look of distaste she’d picked up fro a bad day or soht had been delayed over two hours Even she’d been irritated by that And certainly there could be no reason for him to dislike her He didn’t even know her But the other day, the way he’d looked at her was even worse For whatever reason, the nant Of course, thatthan when she’d first laid eyes on hi, she walked away from theand sat down in front of her desk For all she knew, the guy was h None of thaton a base full of soldiers had all been an act, just as this entire last year had been She pretended she was excited abouton with her life Of course, her faive herself if she were ever the cause of anything that ht send either of her parents back into the hospital Between her dad’s bad heart, and her h blood pressure, she didn’t dare tell theed on as the previous days had, and she finally made her way out of her office, down the elevator, and out to her car Hitting the ignition button with one hand, she checked her texts with the other then pulled off her na with the car She was so engrossed in reading a text froister, but when it did, she froze

Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven?

Immediately choked up, she hit the off switch, but it was too late She felt herself drowning fast in that overwhel with Choking back the tears because she was not about to fall apart right there or go into hysterics as she knew she could very easily do, she took a deep breath, fighting the anguish that bathed her so quickly andshe could channel her thoughts into instead Her therapist had instructed her to do just that at tiht lose it So she breathed in deeply and began channeling She thought of her work, the designs she’d presented to her subordinates today, but it wasn’t working, so she thought of her plans for that evening She’d be going to the gym later, and then it hit her Her Fitbit, the pedometer she used around her wrist to count her steps, the battery had died today, and she left it hooked up to her co because she was already grabbing her keychain and pushing the car start button off, she opened her door Taking more deep breaths even as the tears continued to spill fro It’d been months since the last time she’d broken down as she alress This was the first tiht it